Relational Economic Geography: A Partial Understanding or a New Paradigm?

By P. Sunley. 2008

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Strategy and Management

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Human geography and the institutions that underlie economic growth (2011, background): “Thus, results have been thickly descriptive, and this hinders the development of a sustained ‘dialogue between theory and data’ (Sunley, 2008).”
The complexity of innovation: A relational turn (2011, background): “As such, it has been accused of lacking analytical guidelines (Sunley, 2008).”
Geographies of circulation and exchange: constructions of markets (2009, background): “Only belatedly taking notice, socioeconomists miss the embeddedness of economic action in inter-personal networks, cultural contexts or political institutions (Sunley, 2008; Yeung, 2005: 44).”
The costs of compliance? Views of Sri Lankan apparel manufacturers in times of global economic crisis (2011, background): “Given that our study was undertaken during the depths of the global recession our findings are opportune, and is likely add value to emerging academic debate on the likely robustness of ethical trading initiatives during times of economic crisis.”
Theorizing practice in economic geography: Foundations, challenges, and possibilities (2011, unknown): “Specifically, critics have argued that qualitative ‘micro-scale’ practice research, with its emphasis on the activities of, and relationships between, individual actors: negates the possibility of effective generalization (Sunley, 2008), lacks a sound political economy (Peck, 2005), represents a dis”
The dynamics of interfirm networks along the industry life cycle: The case of the global video game industry, 1987–2007 (2013, background): “…the spatial processes at hand, various scholars have recently identified flaws in this literature by criticizing its lack of formalization and its metaphorical accounts of relational processes (see e.g. Giuliani and Bell, 2005; Cantner and Graf, 2006; Grabher, 2006; Glückler, 2007; Sunley, 2008).”
Trinity of change agency, regional development paths and opportunity spaces (2020, background): “We acknowledge the importance of structures of power and related spatial disparities (Sunley, 2008) but investigate conceptually how actors influence path development.”
Advancing Evolutionary Economic Geography by Engaged Pluralism (2014, background): “A relational perspective is argued to provide better concepts for comprehensively theorizing institutions, power, social agency and particularly the interrelatedness between scales (BATHELT and GLÜCKLER, 2003; BOGGS and RANTISI, 2003; SUNLEY, 2008; YEUNG, 2005).”
Evolution in Economic Geography: Institutions, Political Economy, and Adaptation (2009, background): “Moreover, the social 5 This emphasis on microscale actors and processes is also a defining characteristic of relational economic geography (Sunley 2008), although the latter is more concerned with the relational networks in which firms are embedded than with their internal learning processes.”